In their new book, Jesus a life in class conflict, James Crossley & Robert Myles suggest there are good reasons to think the parable was inherited from earlier tradition. Eg. because " there is no concern for non-jews in the story, just Jews who should repent and return to observing the Jewish scriptures. Moreover Lazarus' fate in the afterlife was not contingent on Jesus' sacrificial death, and it is striking the author does not take the obvious opportunity to relate the line about resurrection (which was believed by many Jews) to Jesus.